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Re: Optimal Radiation
Hi Joe,
But, LLR is NOT homeopathic. That's based on minuscule doses (like thinking
0.1 mSv could make any difference. :-) Maybe ICRP/NCRP are based on
homeopathy :-)
Immune responses from radiation require more, enough to add to background
doses (even higher background doses, and recent data showing adaptive response
in occupationally exposed workers at 1-10 mSv/yr).
We've got the data and people to support the case, if you want to start! Right
Jerry? (Too bad Len Sagan is not with us! :-)
Thanks.
Regards, Jim
Radiation, Science, and Health
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Joseph Archer wrote:
>
> I would favor a radioactive mattress pad. Radon spas deliver high LET doses to
> the lung and tritiated water may not be clever because a large commercial
> tritium industry raises issues like proliferation. Whole body x-rays would
> require the hassle of going and getting them and would deliver doses at higher
> rates. A mattress pad would give small daily and relatively accurate doses since
> 99% of the population sleeps 8 +/- 1 hour a day. Let me know if you would like
> to collaborate on starting a business like this as homeopathic medicine.
>
> Best Regards,
> Joe Archer
>
> Jerry Cohen wrote:
>
> > It is interesting that you bring this up. On reviewing the literature on
> > hormesis, it appears that there is a lot of evidence indicating that
> > low-dose radiation stimulates resistance to various disease processes
> > including cancer. It has been hypothesized that the "optimal" dose level
> > for humans would be ~10 rem/yr. When you go much above this level, harmful
> > radiation effects would likely predominate. Accordingly, background
> > radiation levels everywhere in the world ,including Kerala, could be
> > considered "suboptimal"
> > In a recent informal discussion regarding these phenomena, assuming
> > that at some future time hormesis becomes accepted, we conjectured on
> > methods that might be applied to administer "supplemental radiation" to the
> > unfortunate people who reside in radiation deficient areas. Among the
> > methods considered were: whole body x-ray, radon spas, uranium mines, and
> > drinking tritiated water. The latter was my favorite, but I wonder if anyone
> > might offer a better suggestion. jjcohen@prodigy.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: Radiation Safety Travel Tips
> >
> > >At 09:49 AM 1/25/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> > >>>Obviously, we are going about the
> > >>>business of radiation safety all wrong. Rather than shielding people we
> > >>>could be opening spas.
> > >
> > >Can you imagine what will happen if hormesis can be proven? Mobs at the
> > >gates of our nuclear power plants demanding to be let in and given their
> > >exposure? How dare you deprive me of my rightful dose?
> > >
> > >===================================
> > >Bob Flood
> > >Dosimetry Group Leader
> > >Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> > >(650) 926-3793
> > >bflood@slac.stanford.edu
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